Marcial

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marcial is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Del latín Martialis, derivado de Mars/Marte; ‘perteneciente a Marte, guerrero’.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.6K
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 1.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈32,000 people, est.

Sources
258 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Spanish

Del latín Martialis, derivado de Mars/Marte; ‘perteneciente a Marte, guerrero’.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marcial counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Marcial is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#843≈32,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K19KMarcial60
PE Peru#307≈20,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Marcial63
PY Paraguay#172≈5,900 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Marcial31
AR Argentina#592≈5,800 est.≈1 in 7.8K4.7KMarcial71
VE Venezuela#5595,6771 in 5K5.7KMarcial42
NI Nicaragua#147≈3,200 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Marcial16

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marcial is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mąrçįąl

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, United States, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Märçïäl, Marçial

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Mârćial, Mâřçîãl, Märcïäl

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Marcial is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Significado: Hoja

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Marcial del Adalid y Gurréa, b. 1826Marcial Maciel, b. 1920Marcial Avalos, b. 1921Marcial Pina, b. 1946Marcial Bobadilla Guillén, b. 1951Marcial Tagle, b. 1963Marcial Álvarez, b. 1966Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, b. 1968Álvaro Campuzano, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 56 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Marcial
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—4.7K—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Marcial mean?
Recorded meaning: Del latín Martialis, derivado de Mars/Marte; ‘perteneciente a Marte, guerrero’.
Is Marcial a male or female name?
Marcial is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Marcial?
In the etymology graph, Martial is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Marcial have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Marcial in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marcial.
How common is the name Marcial?
In Venezuela, the national register counted 5,677 people named Marcial, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
How common is Marcial compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Marcial is the 843rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marcial” — the 843rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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